r/UnethicalLifeProTips

We have a gag gift item in my family. Nothing dangerous, just stupid. It is about the size of a large shoebox.

The goal is to not be the owner of the item. As such any gifts offered that are as large or larger than the item are often flatly refused. It has been hidden, sent in the mail, disguised as being from someone not in on the prank, and modified to look like some other really specific thing (charcoal grill, drum set) so that the recipient's guard is down. Everyone has gotten smarter now though.

I have the thing. How do I ensure that I am able to unload it? It is often exchanged at/around holidays (as this is when gifts are typically given) but that is not a requirement. However showing up to someone's house will generally get your car and any bags searched to make sure you aren't trying to smuggle it in.

The general rule is that once you have touched it, it belongs to you- whether you know what it is at that point or not.

He made a mistake. I got spammed with his address and name. His mothers name, and his wife’s name. A phone call from a collector. I looked all this up, and my phone number is listed as all of their primary numbers online. I’ve had this number since 1999. This has been going on for two years, but I never had anything but his first name.
The address checks. Called all numbers and found their real numbers. It Checks. It’s them.

I filed a complaint with the FCC. Now I want legal, anonymous, petty revenge. I already texted everyone that texted me looking for him, his address and real number. This person is a total stranger. What is weirder, is that they also had my brother’s old number as one of their primary numbers.

I just purchased a box of embarrassing prank postcards invites to fake events that I intend to send to his neighbors with his name on them, with something like “Can’t wait to see you at the P**n trading summit meet again next year! You had great content!!!”.

I legit can’t get in trouble tho, so, halp, please.

I moved into a new apartment 6 months ago. It used to be a motel so the way it works, my very tiny backyard backs into my neighbors front door. I put up privacy fences already, but she sits on the other side right next to the fence and loudly talks on the phone for 8-10 hours a day while chain smoking cigarettes.

I have asked her to use her backyard (where she has a porch!!) But she said she prefers to sit in tje front right next to my fence. I cant sit outside, or even open the windows because of the amount of noise and cigarette smoke.

I have talked to the landlord, but since the neighbor has been there for over 10 years and i have just moved in, they said there is nothing they can do because she isn't technically doing anything wrong.

I wanted to put up windchimes next to where she sits, but they are not permitted in our complex.

What can I do to get her to stop??

If you’re in a paid parking lot that still uses magnetic strip parking tickets you can rub the strip on the magsafe ring most phones come standard with now and it will usually make the ticket unreadable. Most of these parking systems has a call box that rings an attendant in a comfy air conditioned office or booth when a ticket won’t scan who isn’t very interested in getting up to inspect your ticket and manually charge you. 9/10 they’ll just open the gate and let you out.

You will get a CT scan, MRI's, CBC with differential, lipid panel, AST/ALT, chemistry, heart scans, DNA test and possibly more depending on the organ...all 100% free.

For women: If you request egg donation...the clinic will cover a multitude of test including the DNA testing

You could also get a psychoanalysis and sessions with a therapist for free.

Simply change your mind after all of these are done and you've discussed your concerns if any with the doctors.

You MUST ensure you tell them you do not have medical insurance and insist you are 100% healthy during the initial surveys (even if not)

There is NO bill, NO hard feelings and no repercussions for changing your mind after the fact.

If this sounds too unethical to you can also just donate blood to receive a free blood test and measurements of Hemoglobin, A1c, Cholesterol and a basic screen for some diseases and STD's

Edit: I work in healthcare. The US medical system is the most greedy, unjust and expensive healthcare system in the world so I dont feel bad advocating for the PEOPLE

So I’m 4’9 as 22 years old, and a few weeks ago a 15 year old came over to me and assumed I’m his age. He offered to like buy me lunch or smth, which I obviously turned down, but it got me thinking. No one ever thinks I’m my actual age (which has always been a negative) but somewhere between 13 and 17. Moreover, my younger sister is way taller and “older looking” (her words), so there’s gotta be some ULPTs here… Lmk, very excited!

There's this guy fishing in front of my apartment all the time. He often leaves a lot of trash after sitting there for a full day even though there's a bin not even 10 meters away. He has also destroyed the bushes around the spot he sits with his rain tent. I've talked to him about it but he doesn't stop, and doesn't want to change spots because this is "the best one in the area" according to him.

Now how would I legally ruin that for him?

Scheduling problems get resolved a lot faster when you’re taking up a hospital bed than when you’re on hold on the phone at home. Don't filibuster medical resources, but don't be afraid to advocate for appropriate medical attention either.

My brother in law has a sports gambling problem. He’s been doing his for years. About 8 yrs ago he lost 50k on a bet and was afraid his wife would find out so he got bailed out by his parents secretly. No matter what happens he somehow manages to keep hiding what he’s doing.

I feel very uncomfortable that we all know about this but don’t tell Jenny.

If I were to tell her, I would be totally disowned by the family and that’s not a dynamic that I can live with (it would likely cost me my marriage).

Thoughts? Ideas?

They will leave bags of rotting food on the floor. It’s fucking disgusting. I don’t think they understand the concept of a trash can.

What are some unethical ways I can get them to take. out. their. fucking. garbage?

I need your creative ideas, your help, to make the freeholder of my flat miserable, worry, work..as he did to me.

This is UK, London.

As like those with a bit of power over you he made my life difficult, and I want to do the same to him.

I don't want anything ilegal, just to ideas on how to worry him ie report his very possible tax evasion.

Note: I'm half considering just taking him to court for defamation, but if that isn't an option, here's the story:

Sometime in 2012-2013, when I was still in high school, I made a comment about a girls body that I thought was a joke, but she did not take it that way. She slapped me in the face and nothing further happened (can be verified by at least 2 people that I could contact immediately who were \*right there\*) we never even spoke until HS graduation and have not seen each other since...

(Note, this girls grandfather and my uncle are good friends, leading to...)

However, last Christmas, my mom and grandmother asked me about some kind of confrontation between the two of us, mentioning that my uncle (a 65 year old man who has been unmarried his whole life) was claiming that things had escalated way further, and that what I did to her wad a felony, and that I should be in jail. This is obviously an extreme stretching of the truth

I believe he's only doing this because both of my grandparents are approaching their 90s and he wants to ensure I get as little inheritance as possible. He doesn't speak with my grandmother and has not in about a decade for several reasons. Without getting too deep into things, he (36 years older than me) bullied me quite a bit when I was a kid - and I never let it go, which led to a lot of tension... but when I was 16 and got a car, he apparently tried to convince my parents that I shouldn't be driving, wasn't mature enough, etc, and that really frustrated my mother + grandmother - this apparently led to the big blow up between my grandmother and my uncle.

I fully believe that he's making these comments to turn my grandparents and maybe other family against me. What do I do here if I don't have grounds for a lawsuit? I do understand that I'm emotional about this (I hate him, have for nearly 20 years, and frankly I want to hurt him in some way, and I do understand that may be clouding my judgment here) but this isn't something I should just let go... right?

As the title says, I bought the Airbnb party house owners' business name domain. It is: www.cozycornerrentals.com Currently, it redirects to a free github site, and github is currently down like 20% of the time lol. But the dude has had bed bugs, shooting, hookers running bordellos, overflowing sewage after broken grinder pumps, and more on his property.

I'm thinking of making a fake wifi hotspot named "Airbnb-wifi" and putting a captive portal to a website with things like "What guests are saying" and having a slideshow of the reviews mentioning bed bugs, and calling it the bed bug bordello.

I'm sure you guys can come up with better ideas tho! And I'm eager to hear them!

FWIW, the site with the reviews mentioning the bed bugs is here: Game Room - 100 inch projector - By Marsh, Savannah (updated prices 2027)
if you reverse image search the guests who left reviews, (don't do it, I'm warning you!) you will understand why I call it the bed bug bordello.

I live in townhouses, no HOA. These new kids moved down about 7 houses and use their fuck ass hover board on the sidewalk. It would be fine but they’re loud as fuck. My neighbor and I are shift workers and they are constantly waking us up. We’ve told them to stop, go play somewhere else, etc but it’s not working. We put something in the way of the sidewalk but it was defeated. Could we talk to the parents first? Absolutely, but this is unethical life pro tips and that’s the way I want to go first

I work in consulting for context, and I’ll have routine 70+ hour weeks. I’ll start the day at 6:00 am and keep going till past 3:00 am some days. Sometimes during the day though I find myself zoning out during meetings and not being able to process things as fast as I should. Even churning when it comes to getting started on work and finishing pages. What helps here? I already have adhd and take medication for it, but even then I still don’t feel wired

There is no ordinance in my city against blocking a mailbox, and the local postmaster won't help. How can I legally irritate him enough to move his car into his own driveway, where he has plenty of room to park? Myself and his other neighbor have asked nicely, and he just refuses. Thanks!

Whenever you make a controversial comment online and know people are about to track down your personal info, block them everywhere except LinkedIn. Before they arrive, sanitize your profile: delete your current job and any past employers who treated you well, respected you, and paid you what you were worth.

​Leave only the toxic workplaces that cheated, underpaid, or mistreated you. When the outrage mob goes digging to get you fired, they’ll direct all their angry calls, bad reviews, and harassment straight at the companies that did you wrong. You get to protect your real livelihood while letting an angry mob give your former toxic employers a little unexpected chaos.

I thought I booked refundable on Booking, but it turns out I booked non-refundable. My payment method wasn’t updated, so they weren’t able to charge. The hotel sent me a message threatening to cancel if I didn’t update my credit card- but it’s been two weeks now and they haven’t cancelled. How can I get them to do it? It’s high season and I think they’ll be rebooked in no time. Don’t want to leave them high and dry as a no show, but also don’t want to put it in writing that I’m definitely not coming.

My apartment is raising rent from $1.9k to $2.5k USD per month. On top of that, they charge an ADDITIONAL $300 per month to park in the building garage.

There is no safe street parking where I live and other lots are not an option.

After car fees, parking and rent, I have virtually no money left over to live.

The parking company gave me a magnetic sticker to stick on the windshield of my car. Every time I drive up to the gate it automatically senses it and opens.

I’m wondering if there’s a way for me to make some sort of copy of this so that I can stop paying the parking fee and have it still work?

He destroyed my car, after 5 years of emotional abuse to me and the kids and then gets to go and abandon them and completely stop calling. Months later I find him on a dating app, saying he is childfree and wants to find his “Mavis”. Sounded like a real catch, just sounded like the perfect guy. Plus he’s really the only cute guy on there. It’s making me feel jealous and ugly, because I know he’s getting girls, and now he’s trying to say he doesn’t have kids so he’s going to be having even more fun. I’m pissed and I want everyone to know what he’s doing. He needs to be shamed. Not only am I going to get my child support but I don’t want him to get off easy with this. I need revenge